Another predictable slugfest vs. Monterrey
by Martek on Sep 5, 2011 12:07 AM CDT
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So Dynamo beat Monterrey tonight 3-0 in what was an all-too-predictable slugfest. Here are three links to game stories that detail the carnage:
Houston Chronicle: Friendly turns ugly as Dynamo rout Monterrey 3-0 (This was has a nifty photo gallery on it with images from Chron photog Smiley Pool.) My favorite takeaway from this piece is a comment about Monterrey from Geoff Cameron, who was playing centerback (Sigh) with Andre Hainault on international duty: "We know what they're all about." Yes we do Geoff. Yes we do.
Houston Dynamo: Dynamo beat Monterrey before large crowd (Read the comments about fans getting pelted by beer and whatnot from Monterrey supporters.)
And then finally, here's the press release from Dynamo about the match, which was pretty restrained if you ask me.
Monterrey vs. Houston Dynamo
September 04, 2011 -- Robertson Stadium
Attendance: 28,440Goals by Period 1 2 Tot
Monterrey 0 0 0
Houston Dynamo 2 1 3Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Cam Weaver (unassisted) 12
HOU -- Brad Davis (penalty kick) 23
HOU -- Jason Garey (Brad Davis) 70Monterrey -- Jonathan Orozco (Juan de Dios Ibarra 46), Severo Meza (Eduardo Guevara 77), José María Basanta, Ricardo Osorio (Oscar García 63), César Delgado (Cesar Francisco de la Peña 46), Miguel Morales, Luis Ernesto Pérez, Neri Cardozo (Marvin Piñon 46), Sergio Santana (Marcelo Cazaubón 77), Humberto Suazo, Darío Carreño (Jesús Corona 63).
Substitutes Not Used: Luis Rodríguez, Guillermo Madrigal.Houston Dynamo -- Tyler Deric, Hunter Freeman, Bobby Boswell, Geoff Cameron (Josue Soto 65), Corey Ashe (Kofi Sarkodie 46), Colin Clark (Francisco Navas Cobo 74), Luiz Camargo, Adam Moffat, Brad Davis (Danny Cruz 80), Brian Ching (Jason Garey 46), Cam Weaver (Will Bruin 65).
Substitutes Not Used: Tally Hall.Game Notes:
In front of 28,440 fans, the eighth-largest crowd to see a Houston Dynamo game at Robertson Stadium, the Dynamo scored two goals in the first 23 minutes and cruised past Mexican rival Monterrey 3-0 on Sunday night. After Houston built its 2-0 lead, two Monterrey players were ejected before halftime, leaving the Rayados with just nine players for the second half.Houston improved to 8-4-3 all-time at home against Mexican clubs and 8-7-4 overall against Mexican opposition. The Dynamo are now 2-0 in the series against Monterrey, having beaten Rayados 2-1 in the 2009 Dynamo Charities Cup. Each match included four red cards, counting those issued to bench personnel.
Sunday night's game finished with four ejections: straight red cards to Monterrey captain Luis Ernesto Pérez and leading scorer Humberto Suazo in the first half, an expulsion of Rayados coach Víctor Manuel Vucetich in the 67th minute, and a second yellow card to the Dynamo's Adam Moffat in the 88th minute.
Houston led 2-0 even before the ejections, with Cam Weaver firing a low shot in the 12th minute that deflected off a Monterrey defender to give the Dynamo the lead. Brad Davis converted a 23rd-minute penalty kick, earned by midfielder Luiz Camargo, to double the lead. Davis then helped Houston put the game out of the reach in the second half, bending in a free kick for Jason Garey to volley home in the 70th minute.
Dynamo goalkeeper Tyler Deric, making his third start of the season in all games, made four saves to earn his first shutout of the season and Houston's first shutout since July 9.
The Dynamo played without forward Carlo Costly (Honduras); midfielders Alex Dixon (broken finger) and Je-Vaughn Watson (Jamaica); and defenders Andre Hainault (Canada) and Jermaine Taylor (Jamaica).
Next Match: Saturday, September 10, 3 p.m., Dynamo at Sporting Kansas City, LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, Kansas City KS
Next Home Match: Saturday, September 17, 7:30 p.m., Dynamo vs. San Jose Earthquakes, Robertson Stadium
I was not at the game. Personally, I detest midseason friendlies, though I hasten to add I am very happy for the money this match and the one against Bolton raised for Dynamo Charities. As TR would say, "Bully."
And ironically enough, that is the word I would apply to Monterrey. Look, I know it's wrong to affix a label after just two friendlies (this one and the one we played against them two years ago where they took Corey Ashe out for 6-8 weeks.), but my goodness. Here's what Brad Davis had to say in the Chron piece, the same Brad Davis who got his grille busted open by an elbow tonight:
"It's very disappointing," Davis said. "It's a bit embarrassing the way they handled themselves, in all honesty.
"We're here for a charity match. It's for the fans to have a good contest, a good game. I'm sure they wanted to win. We wanted to win. But it happened where they ruined the game. It's a credit to our guys staying in it, keeping our heads and coming away with the win."
More power to you Brad. Monterrey has come in here twice in three years and have shown themselves to be nothing but a group of classless thugs. We all know they are better than that. This is not the way they played en route to the FMF 2011 Apertura and CONCACAF Champions League titles. That is not the way Humberto Suazo played in the World Cup last year. But this is exactly the way they played tonight, by all accounts, and it is beyond shameful.
Personally, I'm hoping that if there's any justice anywhere in the world, someone shows a tape of the game to the Monterrey players' mothers, who then decide to take matters into their own hands. Now THAT'S a visual!
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Why is this?
I don’t get it – and Monterrey’s relative silence on the matter doesn’t help their case much. Vucetich Rojas makes a vague comment on a TSN article about the officials being against them, but do they seriously expect that such flagrant offenses would not result in cards?
Compare this scene to the true “friendly” that took place between FC Dallas and UANL Tigres. Tigres came to our house and conducted themselves in a manner that reflected positively on FMF, their club, and themselves. Dallas fans and media have frequently commented on the good sportsmanship of the Tigres side. So I don’t think that this can be chalked up to cultural or league differences – the problem seems to lie squarely with CF Monterrey.
I just don’t get it. If this is the “style” we keep hearing US soccer needs to emulate to be successful, personally I’m not interested.
Excellent question
I can understand if this were an aberration but instead this was a continuation from their previous meeting and I think even worse (though fortunately no one was hurt like Ashe was). And I don’t think there’s an implicit animosity here…but I don’t know if we should continue this series with them. Maybe we can agree to something with Pumas since you guys already have Tigres lined up
I don’t understand why we played them a second time, we should have learned our lesson about them last time. I hope now they won’t continue our “blossoming friendship”. By the way does anybody know how Luiz Camargo played?
I watched the game
and overall he played well…it was a bit difficult to assess because after the first goal it all started going to hell in a handbasket quickly. But he was playing very well with Moffat in the middle, I’d really like to see Dom bring him in as a mid-game sub (60th minute or so) in the next match because he and Moffat were frustrating the Rayados in the middle and putting together some nice passes.
Oh, and Cameron was showing why he should be back at CB
you know the best part about signing a brazilian player is that he will never get called for national team duty!!!
fuck rayados fans man, that is just shameful. They are a really good team, but i guess they didnt care to put on a good show for their thousands and thousands of fans in Houston. 28,000? how many of those were dynamo fans? and instead they play like shit and inspire their fans to emulate their behavior by throwing beer at dynamo fans. There are plenty of Mexican teams that are well represented here in houston. We should play Tigres, Pumas, Cruz Azul, Atlas, Morelia, even Santos. (Chivas and America are probably harder to get but both would work). Obviously we dont need to play Atlante from cancun or C=Jaguares from Chiapas as that wont make money at the box office. But we also dont have to go for Rayados, who clearly have no interest in representing their league or putting on a good show for their fans…. I say, Fuck em.
Also, glad to hear Camargo won a penalty and that he and moffat in the middle frustrated a team of Monterreys caliber to the point of self implosion
Yep
like DTD said earlier, FCD has a friendly with Tigres and by all accounts it actually is a friendly match, with good play and good spirits. That’s how its supposed to be and everyone wins: both teams get a nice pay-day from the friendly, fans get to see some good footie and if there’s a charity involved they reap the benefits as well.
Instead we have the Rayados acting like a bunch of idiots, and I hate saying it like that but I’ve got no other way. We have scrappy MLS games but I can’t remember fans acting that way, nor have I seen players and coaches acting that way. I watched the game with a friend of mine (he’s actually a huge fan of Pumas and Tigres) who wanted to see los Rayados win but even he was embarrassed by that. The FO needs to find another FMF team, most will still draw here in Houston but I think the deal with Monterrey is over.
hopefully this means that camargo and moffat are ourt new midfield paring and CAMERON IS FINALLY A CB. Its actually pretty damn sad that it has taken this long and he still may line up at CAM next weekend at SporkSTRONG Park
I hope so...
Camargo did earn a penalty and I’d really like to see Moffat & Camargo together in an MLS match because they both were mobile yet physical and still controlled the midfield. Very, very promising pairing there.
And while I know that their best striker (Suazo) got himself booted out of the game but still, between the midfield killing their chances of attack, anything else that got through was generally snuffed out by Cameron, who would turn around and start the attack. That’s exactly what I was hoping for and I pray Dom can put it into action. The only wrench in the work is that Dixon is out for probably 3 weeks with his finger fracture, and he would’ve been really nice to put into the middle either as a backup to Camargo or perhaps for Clark or Davis on either side of the field. Shame he’ll have to wait during this critical stretch here…
The Monterey fans were a true embarasment
But the outnumbered Dynamo fans didn’t let them outshout us. I thought they were going to own the stadium with their sheer number but I guess when they weren’t winning the shouting match or the soccer match and so they resorted to beer throwing and fighting. I was lucky that in my section there was none of that, but my wife and her friend were terrified. There’s no need for that. A classless display of ignorance on their part which allows people to draw generalizations and conclusions that would otherwise be untrue. They represented themselves poorly as did their team. They did a disservice to this sport which is still growing in this country. A soccer novice that goes to this game leaves with a skewed opinion of what it’s all about- especially in a friendly. And, like always, it’s not the majority of fans, but just the most vocal minority that cause all of the problems. We didn’t experience any problems in our area but the girls wanted to leave for safety reasons. We stayed till the end of the game and I am really proud of the Dynamo and the fans. We played classy, didn’t roll over to their physical play, and won. You could tell the players really wanted to win-I hope that translates to the MLS season. I loved Cam Weavers goal celebration. Oh, and to the Monterey fans that on facebook and blogs are posting that it was the referee’s fault- that’s just typical. 3-0!
I had a feeling that would happen
I’m not as anti-mid season friendlies as most. I don’t like them, but when they come at time like this when we have an off week it’s not the worst thing in the world to get some younger guys some minutes, or try out different combinations. Sure, it’s just a cash grab, but that part really doesn’t bother me.
Despite being very interested in getting a look at Camargo I decided against going to the game. I was pretty sure it would turn into a hack fest. I also knew that the chances for problems in the stands was going to be higher than normal (of course normal is basically zero). I hesitate to even put this down because it might get turned into something it’s not, but it seems like every match we play against Mexican clubs turns into a card fest(the Dynamo aren’t always innocent victims either) with plenty of diving. I see that FCD and Tigres have been able to have a true “friendly” so maybe it’s just the bad games that stick out in my mind though.
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It's a matter of balance
It seems to me that if Dynamo fans would stop making excuses for not going to ‘friendlies’ and support their team no matter who the opponent there would be a better balance between fan groups and likely better behavior in the stands. In other words – defend your turf.
As for rampant bad behavior Sunday night? I saw one incident right before the final whistle blew. I couldn’t tell what was going on only that a lot of people were looking towards one section of the stands rather than the field. Could there have been others – maybe, but I didn’t see anything. after the game I don’t know since as soon as the final whistle blows I’m gone – just as I do with MLS games.
No would i miss a match and not support the guys
u cannot be afraid of your shadow. People do not need to be afraid of the bogie man.
Dynamo fans need more back bone. Yes i was there in Reliant where the Mexican head coach tripped an opposing player. It was a wild night there too.
Go Dynamo’s
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